Germany - Neo-Nazi Village Features 'Happy Holocaust' BBQ

Germany - Jamel, a tiny German village, is well-known for its connections to right-wing radicals. On the eve of elections in the state where the community is located, a journalist ran across a BBQ brandishing the phrase “Happy Holocaust.” Was it a tasteless joke or a further symbol of a town that has lost its way?

Much has been written about the village of Jamel near Wismar in the far northeastern German state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Hitler salutes in the streets, firing practice in local forests and outsiders chased away. The small run-down settlement has become a dark symbol of the growing reach of neo-Nazi ideology.

In the run-up to Sunday’s local ballot in the state, a journalist from the website VBS TV arrived in Jamel. Although she was familiar with the village’s larger-than-life reputation, she was shocked to see a large rusty barbeque inscribed with the phrase “happy holocaust.”

The grill was in the barbed-wire encircled garden of the office of the far-right extremist National Democratic Party (NPD). The backyard was overlooked by a watchtower and a red, black and white old German Reich flag of the type used by the far-right scene.

“I was shocked and I just couldn’t believe what I saw. It felt really surreal,” VBS TV journalist Barbara Dabrowska told SPIEGEL ONLINE. “It was like in a bad American movie that tries to come up with the most ridiculous idea for how to make Nazis look really terrible. ... They probably meant it as a joke, but I was annoyed by their either stupid or incredibly provocative approach.”

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The NPD party won seats in the state parliament for the second time in Sunday’s state election.

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Sep 05, 2011 at 05:23 PMsome1 Says:

we all forget that we are in gules, yes its very hurtful to hear it all over again daily in the news, and its in our hands to change ourselvs and bring moshiach.Chasam sofer wrights, "EISOF SOYNE LEYAKOV" is a hallacha, and he called them "a erliche goy", we only need to pray they should make themselfs like they love us.May hashem send moshiach bekurov beyumeini....